A more flexible solution would be Tom Kyte's print_table procedure. See here: http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1035431863958 -Mark -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maureen English Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:15 PM To: orasnita@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: Vertical align columns in sql*plus Octavian, I knew I saw something like this before, so I asked one of my coworkers who writes a lot of reporting queries. You can try using newline... For example, run this query: set lines 80 set pages 2000 set echo off set verify off set feedback off set head off column who newline column dbase newline column dspace newline column tspace newline column prof newline select 'USERNAME: '||username who, 'DATABASE: '||name dbase, 'DEFAULT TABLESPACE: '||default_tablespace dspace, 'TEMPORARY TABLESPACE: '||temporary_tablespace tspace, 'PROFILE: '||profile prof from v$database, dba_users ; - Maureen Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to align vertically the columns displayed in sql*plus > like under SQLite by using .mode line or in MySQL by ending the query > with \G? > > ...something like: > > <row1> > column1: 1.23 > column2: "the value" > column3: 0 > <row2> > column1: 2.55 > column2: "another val" > column3: 1 > > Thank you. > > -- > Octavian > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5280 (20100715) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l